Frequently hilarious, sometimes disturbing, always entertaining, these fascinating stories of the chaos that lies on the fringe...

On the day that Ester Nilsson, a poet and a sensible person in a sensible relationship, meets renowned artist Hugo Rask, her...

Clive James was one of our finest critics and best-loved cultural voices. He was also a prize-winning poet. Since he was first...

All the longing, excitement and poignant comedy of adolescence are captured in Elizabeth Jane Howard's first novel The Beautiful...

Originally published in 1956, The Long View is Elizabeth Jane Howard's uncannily authentic portrait of one marriage and one...

From the bestselling author of The Cazalet Chronicles, The Sea Change is a witty yet heart-rending story of a marriage in...

From the lauded, bestselling author of The Cazalet Chronicles, After Julius is Elizabeth Jane Howard's funny yet touching story...

From the lauded, bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Something in Disguise paints a candid picture of a family in...

From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles comes Elizabeth Jane Howard's Falling.

Harry Kent is a sensitive man in...

From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles comes Elizabeth Jane Howard's Love All.

The late 1960s. For Persephone...

This is Larry McMurtry's ballad in prose: his heartfelt tribute to a bygone era of the American West.

Larry McMurtry has done...

The second book in the Lonesome Dove quartet, Comanche Moon, which follows on from Dead Man's Walk, follows ranchers Gus and Call...

A classic love story and a seminal work of Irish literature that is a testament to romance, magic and the power of true love....

So this is happiness, she thought. Or this, at least, is what adds up to happiness. The prospect of never running after men and...

My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973.

In heaven, Susie...

Winner of Australia's prestigious Miles Franklin Award, Cloudstreet is Tim Winton's great family drama, a twenty-year story of...

Told with Clive James's unassailable sense of humour and self-effacing charm, Unreliable Memoirs is a hilarious and touching...

The second novel in the dazzling Last Hundred Years trilogy, Early Warning follows the Langdon family from the 50s, through to...

The third novel in the dazzling Last Hundred Years Trilogy from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize Jane Smiley.

1987. A visit...

This is London in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers, witch-doctors and sex workers.

This is London...

Today I'm five. I was four last night going to sleep in Wardrobe, but when I wake up in Bed in the dark I'm changed to five,...

A classic work of Irish literature, this award-winning novel is an exploration of love, art and identity.

This was the night...

Lilia has been leaving people behind her entire life. Haunted by her inability to remember her early childhood, and by a...

After shaking off an increasingly dangerous venture with his cousin, Anton Waker has spent years constructing an honest life for...

How far would you go for someone you love?

The Lola Quartet: Jack, Daniel, Sasha and Gavin, four talented musicians at the end...

That's when it hits me. I'm staring at a war zone. In South Central.

On an April night in 1992, Payasa learns that her older...

Dark, dangerous and compulsively readable, Dare Me by Megan Abbott is a gripping exploration of the teenage psyche.

There's...

Like John Williams' Stoner or Denis Johnson's Train Dreams, A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler is a tender book about finding...

From the author of Writers & Lovers, Euphoria is Lily King's gripping novel inspired by the true story of a woman who changed the...

In the summer of 1990, Cathy's brother Matty was knocked down by a car on the way home from a night out. It was two weeks before...